March for Palestine at Portsmouth

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March for Palestine at Portsmouth from Victoria Park to City Centre

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00:00 My name is Holly and I'm here to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.

00:13 It's hard to even put it into words.

00:16 It's so shocking.

00:18 I cry every day seeing the footage of what's going on in Gaza.

00:25 You see a lot of it on social media because the media is not showing you the actual reality.

00:33 They give you a sanitised version of it, but the reality is much more horrific.

00:43 They're not just a number.

00:46 Every single one of those tens of thousands of people is a human life that's been destroyed.

00:57 It breaks my heart every single day.

00:59 I just imagine my own children.

01:03 There are children that are the same age as my own children dying.

01:08 It's a horrible death.

01:09 I'm Jenny Agricola.

01:26 My grandfather was part of the British Army in Palestine under the British mandate.

01:31 He was absolutely appalled at what happened in 1948 when there was the Nakba and all the

01:36 Palestinians were pushed out.

01:38 He lived in Jerusalem and in different parts, all over Palestine, where people lived happily

01:44 together, whether they were Muslims or Christians, Israelis, Jewish, Palestinians, everybody

01:52 from everywhere.

01:53 He was appalled at what happened with the British and they just allowed all the Palestinians

01:57 to become refugees in different parts of the world.

02:01 I find that what's happening in Gaza now absolutely horrendous and option C of the

02:08 Israeli military intelligence that want to push all Palestinians out of Israel, I find

02:15 disgraceful and annex the West Bank.

02:18 My name is Quentin.

02:23 I'm French.

02:26 I've been in the UK for the last 15 years.

02:31 I'm here today to ask for a permanent ceasefire.

02:36 I am, like so many others around me, outraged by the lack of response from the British government

02:44 to what's going on in Palestine.

02:46 So it's my fifth march, I believe, and I'm asking for a ceasefire, permanent ceasefire.

02:53 I want the UN to force something on Israel so the war stops.

03:11 Palestine must be free.

03:33 Palestine will be free.

03:59 Palestine will be free.

04:27 Palestine will be free.

04:37 Palestine will be free.

04:47 Palestine will be free.

05:15 Palestine will be free.

05:31 Palestine will be free.

05:46 Thank you.

05:47 Thank you.

05:48 Thank you.

05:49 Thank you.

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